Ship-protector.



l. VAIDIK.`

SHIP PHGTECTOR.

APPucATloN mep JULY 3. 19u.-

Lg. Patented oct. 30,1917.

J0 FIG. 1.

JOSEPH vAIDIIgoF. CLINTON, INDIANA.y

SHIP-PROTECTOR.

Speccation of Letters Patent'. i

Patented oet. so, 1917.

Application filed July 3, 1917. Serial No. 178,373.

To all iti/wm 'it may conce/rn.'

Be it knownthat l, JOSEPH Varoni, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Clinton, in the county of Vermilion and vState of indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ship-Protectors, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in ship protectors.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a means for protecting ships and other water craft against. missiles such as torpedoes from submarines. the arrangement vbeing such as tov protect the hull of the craft adjacent and below the water line.

A further object of the device is they provision of a removable sectional casing for the protection of the hull of a ship, cushioning spacing means being arranged for the protector adapted for absorbing the shock `and impact of missiles which strike the same.

`With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consist-s in the novel arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing and then claimed.

In the drawing forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the hull of a ship provided with the present protecting device.

Fig. 2 is a. vertical transverse sectional View through one side portion of the device illustrated in its operative position upon the hull. Y

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a. portion of the structure shown in iFig. 1.

Fig. il is a horizontal detail sectional view of one of the connecting means employed.

It being understood that the present deviCe is applicable for protect-ing the hull of any form of water craft, the same is herein illustrated in connection with the hull 10 of a ship having a4 deck 11 a keel 12 a bow 13 and a stern 11. The device broadly consists of a plurality of inclosing sections 15, 16

and 17 relatively shiftably attached together by connectors 18 the said sections being inclosingly positioned with respect to the bow, l

intermediate and stern portions of the hull.

The sections 15, 16 and 17 when taken together form a substantially hull shaped protecting casing arranged beneath and around the hull 10, with the said hull positioned therein while a plurality of spacing springs 19 are arranged between the outer side 20 of the hull 10 and the inner faces 21 of the said protector sections. The bow section 15 has a pointed forward portion or prow 22 arranged forwardly of the bow 13 of the hull 10 and provided with an inner rib 23 substantially parallel with the said bow for arranging a plurality of springs 24 therebetween.

The connectors 1S which are arranged between the adjacent sections of the device consist of blocks 25 secured adjacent the free edge 26 at one side of the interruption or space 27 between the adjacent sections, the said blocks being formed of-metal and having opposite sockets 28 arranged therein adapted for the slidable reception of the inturned ends 29 of t-he adjacent pair of hooks 30 carried by the adjacent protector sections. Flexible cords 31 conne-ct the upper edges 32 of the section with the deck 11 and it will be readily understood that the cords 31 assist to maintain the hull 10 within the protec-ting casinguniformly spaced therefrom by the shock absorbing springs 19 while the connectors 1S permit limited relative movement between the protector sections 15, 16 and 17 when the hull 10 is positioned in the water with the present device in its operative protecting arrangement. When any of the sections 15, 16 or 17 of the protector are hit b v a missile or projectile, the impact of the blow is absorbed by the springs 19 and the protector sections being constructed of such material as wood or metal adapted to retard, deflect or stop the missile, the hull 10 will receive little or no injury from the missile which strikes the protector. The form of the device offers only slight resistance to the travel of the ship through the water and is serviceable in connection with life boats. While the present form of the device is believed to be preferable minor changes may be made therein if desired'wihsection having opposite sockets, and pairs of out departing from the present invention as oopemtng hooks carried by the opposite hereinafter Claimed. edge of each adjacent section having in 1o. What I Claim as new iszturned ends sldably arranged Within the 5 A protector for hulls comprising :L plural- Sockets of the adjacent-1y positioned bleek.

ity of inoiosing sections therefor, blocks sen testimony whereof I a-BX my signature.

cured to one of the Vertical edges of each JOSEPH VAIDIK.

Copies of hs paient may be obaned for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Parents.

Y Washington, E. C." 

